Trip to Switzerland - Plan It All By Yourself. - By Arun Rajamani

Hi,

Another good speech and a very informative one from Arun, a fellow toastmaster.

How many of you are not married in this group? All the unmarried people in the group after marriage hope you would go to honeymoon? What better place than Switzerland.

Good evening Toastmasters I am Arun Rajamani and would like to give you information on how you can plan a 7 day Switzerland trip yourself and not depend on travel agencies. For those who have not been to Switzerland I would like to share my experience with you and those already been there just sit back and relive the moments.

1^st thing when we plan a try we do is Google 5 days 6 nights trip to Switzerland and you would get 50 links only to realize you can cover so less in huge cost . I would like to give you tips how you can plan your own trip.

In any trip 3 things are key .

1    Travel ( Flight + local Travel)

2       Places to Visit

3       Hotels.

Let me talk about 1^st and most important thing Travel. Plan your trip 3 or 4 months in advance to get cheap flight tickets. Check for some flexible tentative dates and search for tickets. Once you get a dates where flight tickets are cheaper, next day go to your manager and apply leave and get a confirmation letter (this is very important). One Tip here checks for tickets from Mumbai or Delhi as well as you might get good rates from there.

Switzerland is one country which is very well intra connected. All you have to do is get an 8 day Swizz Euro Pass; you can use this for all kind of local transportation be it train, bus or Ferry.

Once you have booked your Too and Fro Tickets next important step is identify places to visit. Switzerland is too big to be covered in 5 or 6 days hence you will have to choose your cities to visit and what you want to explore. I would briefly go though the places I visited and would recommend you to see as well.

We landed in Zurich and took a train to Interlaken and enjoyed paragliding over here. We stayed in Interlaken for 3 days and covered places around it. If you are in Switzerland you have to see Jungfrau Europe highest altitude and Mt Titils where you would see world’s first rotating cable car. And visit beautiful city of Lucerne. You could also take world’s slowest express train Glacier Express to reach Switzerland southernmost City St.Moriz. On the way back to Zurich you could hop around to see Switzerland’s oldest City Chur. Do not miss our Commercial part of Zurich and Rhine Falls near Zurich.

By now you would have decided where you can halt, hence try to find out good hotels which fits in your budget. Here trip advisor to check out hotels review and booking.com using which you can block your hotels and get a confirmation, we halted at Interlaken, St Mortiz and Zurich. You would need Hotel Confirmation, Confirmed Air Tickets, and Leave Confirmation letter with other documents to get your visa stamping done. Do plan to get visa a month before to avoid last moment hassles.

This is in brief I wanted to tell you how you can plan for your trip , by planning yourself you can save min 30 K unless you shop more there , and visit lot of places . Since you travel on your own and not hurry to catch a guided tour bus have the freedom to explore on your own. Do plan a honeymoon trip if you are not married or just a trip to Switzerland with your family or friends.

Finally “If Wife is Happy, Life is happy “